The genuineness of the Vestiarium Scoticum

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Full title: The genuineness of the Vestiarium Scoticum: I. The charges made by the Quarterly Review, reprinted from volume 81, 1847; II. A reply to the Quarterly Review upon the Vestiarium Scoticum, Reprint of a very scarce Pamphlet, published by William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, and Charles Dolman, London, in 1848. 8vo. pp. 75. Near-contemporary (1847-1848) defenses by ‘Sobieski Stuart’ of the genuineness of the Vestiarium Scoticum (see Bib# 4103405/Fr# 734 in this collection), which was restudied and finally dismissed in 1980 by D.C. Stewart and J. C. Thompson, Scotland’s Forged Tartans: An Analytical Study of the Vestiarium Scoticum (see Bib# 4103407/Fr# 736). The present work contains a facsimile of a letter from John Sobieski Stuart to the Edinburgh bookseller James Stillie, concerning a possible new edition of the Vestiarium. The work, presumably edited by Stuart, reprints the Quarterly Review article by George Skene and Mackintosh Mackay, together with Stuart’s defense, originally separately published. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.